The Lesser Evil?

Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag

By Julius Margolin (Translated from Russian by Stefani Hoffman)

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From the February 2021 Issue

The Eternal Husband

Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life

By Alex Christofi

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From the December 2020 Issue

Pro-Sex, Anti-Stalin

Collected Poems

By Robert Conquest (Edited by Elizabeth Conquest)

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From the July 2020 Issue

All the President’s Murderers

Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West

By Catherine Belton

Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia’s Remaking of the West

By Luke Harding

Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia

By Joshua Yaffa

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From the June 2020 Issue

Hitler’s More Willing Executioners

Our People: Discovering Lithuania’s Hidden Holocaust

By Rūta Vanagaitė & Efraim Zuroff

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From the May 2020 Issue

The Monks who Came in from the Cold

Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power

By Gregory Afinogenov

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From the March 2020 Issue

Sorrows of Hungary

Katalin Street

By Magda Szabó (Translated from Hungarian by Len Rix)

Abigail

By Magda Szabó (Translated from Hungarian by Len Rix)

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From the December 2019 Issue

Pride, Prejudice & Pushkin

Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor

By Vladimir Nabokov (Edited by Brian Boyd & Anastasia Tolstoy)

From the October 2019 Issue

Madness & Misanthropy

Bellevue

By Ivana Dobrakovová (Translated by Julia & Peter Sherwood)

Big Love

By Balla (Translated by Julia & Peter Sherwood)

From the September 2019 Issue

Artists & Lovers

The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture

By Orlando Figes

From the August 1999 Issue

Not Undiscovered

The Undiscovered Chekhov: Thirty-Eight New Stories

By Translated and Edited by Peter Constantine

From the March 1999 Issue

An Explanation at Last for his Tragic End

Pushkin's Button

By Serena Vitale (Translated by Ann Goldstein and Jon Rothschild)

From the March 2019 Issue

When Knowledge Met Power

Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment

By Robert Zaretsky

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Griboyedov’s Last Journey

Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar

By Yuri Tynianov (Translated by Susan Causey)

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From the December 2018 Issue

Yours Radically

Greetings From the Barricades: Revolutionary Postcards in Imperial Russia

By Tobie Mathew

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Losing Lienka

Fleeting Snow

By Pavel Vilikovsky (Translated by Julia & Peter Sherwood)

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From the March 2018 Issue

In Search of Raskolnikov

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A Dictator’s Progress

Stalin, Vol II: Waiting for Hitler, 1928–1941

By Stephen Kotkin

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From the September 2017 Issue

Emptying the Bread Basket

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

By Anne Applebaum

From the August 2017 Issue

Party Walls

The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution

By Yuri Slezkine

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